Probe commissioner Nanavati submits slap row report to BCCI

Mumbai, May 13 (PTI) Cricket Board-appointed Commissioner Sudhir Nanavati, who investigated the slapping row between Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth, submitted a 14-page report to the BCCI here today.

"I have come to submit my report to the BCCI. It's a 14-page report. Whatever conclusion I intended to reach I have reached. It's for the BCCI to take appropriate action," Nanavati said before going in to hand over his report to BCCI's Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty.

Shetty will forward the report to Board president Sharad Pawar for the matter to be taken up at the three-member disciplinary committee headed by the BCCI chief and comprising present-elect Shashank Manohar and vice president Chirayu Amin.

Nanavati was given 15 days' time to complete the investigation by the BCCI and has prepared the report, which has 10 pages of annexure, detailing the results of his investigation for the Board to proceed further on the matter.

However, he was not mandated to recommend punishment for the off-spinner's offence, leaving it to the disciplinary committee to take a final decision on the issue.

Harbhajan, an integral part of the Indian team, slapped his national teammate Sreesanth after the April 25 Indian Premier League match between King's XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians.

It is still not known when the disciplinary committee will meet but there was widespread speculation that the temperamental spinner could be banned for 5 Tests or 10 ODIs or for a period of one year. It was also speculated that he could be downgraded from Category B to C in the players' contract.

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